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Kallitechnes
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06/02/11 07:48 PM (14 years ago)

Old version (building for Android) updating question

This may be a silly question, but I feel better asking it and trying to get a solid answer, rather than guessing and hoping. I just built and submitted my first Buzztouch 1.5 app to the App Store, and now I'm trying to build a version of the app in the old Buzztouch to submit to Android. I've got all my screens set up, but in this version, we can't set up screens first and then link them later, as I've done in v1.5 - so can I add content through the Buzztouch panel later, and still have it push to the app when it's in the Android Market? What I'm trying to do is this: I'm publishing a serial novel, and I want one chapter each week to unlock on the user's phone. Can I load the first 2-3 chapters in Buzztouch, download the code, compile in Eclipse, and launch in the Android Market...and then come back next week and upload a new PDF chapter and link it to the menu without having to recompile and resubmit? I don't need push notifications - I know we don't have those yet, from working with v1.5 - but I want to make sure that I don't have to have all my PDFs saved in some location on the original build in order to get them to appear in the app, week by week. If I do, it's no problem to do...I just need to know before I send this thing out into the wild whether I can add new PDF documents from the Buzztouch panel and have them appear the next time someone launches the app. Thanks!
 
trailman
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06/02/11 10:02 PM (14 years ago)
Yes, you can do that without recompiling. I change mine from time to time. When the app launches it checks to see if there have been any changes of your app on buzztouch.
 
Kallitechnes
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06/03/11 04:28 PM (14 years ago)
@Trailman - thanks so much! I was worried I'd have to load all the PDFs up front before compiling.
 

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